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no one asked me to blow. into the building. we bring in the twenty first century. story december second phone g w. this is d w news live from birth lead how long can zimbabwe's president to cling to power robert mugabe has made his first public appearance since the army took over but he is facing pressure to step down from the military the opposition and even
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his own party we will get the very latest from harare. also coming up police in kenya tear gas opposition supporters as they gather to welcome home their leader raul level data there are reports of several deaths as tension over the disputed presidential election grows. and germany's marathon talks to form a new government to go into extra time chancellor angela merkel calls on all sides to compromise if no deal is reached germany could face fresh elections. i'm sorry kelly welcome to the program thanks for joining us the game is up that is the message to zimbabweans president from the country's influential independence war veterans but despite last week's military tape. over an increasing pressure
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from his own party robert mugabe has far so far refusing to step down he's been under house arrest for the past few days but today he made his first public appearance since the takeover. surrounded by security robert mugabe attends a graduation ceremony on the outskirts of the capital harare in his presence is tradition but given that he's been under house arrest many were surprised to see him the press reported that my guy who normally travels in a luxury vehicle escorted by a large motorcade arrived in a civilian come. in a statement made on national television earlier the military said it was in gauging . its also released photos showing a meeting zimbabwe's army chief and two south african envoys who had flown in to mediate reports suggest robert mugabe is refusing to give up the presidency. tanks have been occupying key positions around the capital since the military takeover
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but there's been no violence and the situation is quiet. i was scared because i thought the army was going to cause havoc but as you can see it's peaceful in the country. now which is where it's business as usual no one is hurting anyone we just. doing what we know many. brits are i mean we are a bit. the game and. we were fearful at first but now everything is normal and it's business as usual. macabre has ruled zimbabwe for nearly forty years analysts suggest the military takeover was to prevent my guy from handing power to his wife grace she has not been seen since the military took control. well elsewhere at least five people have been killed in the kenyan capital during confrontations between police and supporters of opposition
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leader. crowds turned out to welcome back from a road trip abroad officers used tear gas water cannon and even live rounds to prevent his convoy from making headway the opposition leader had been visiting the u.s. and britain to discuss kenya's political turmoil following the disputed presidential election. it was a highly anticipated day for kenya's opposition supporters. thousands lined the streets of the capital nairobi to well come right now dingell. the veteran opposition leader was meeting his followers for the first time since the disputed presidential election in october and despite police warnings against any gatherings the supporters were determined to make a celebration of his return. he. says that people cannot go to the airport to welcome their leader we are waiting for dinner to come
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with good things right now we are waiting for what he has to say. the celebrations were short lived. the police launched an offensive against the opposition barring them from the city. property was damaged people injured. and some killed. but the opposition was undeterred. i've come to tell you that the time for the third republic has begun. the signs we are seeing are those of a government that has already fallen. putting a has called for a national resistance movement to protest the outcome of a repeat presidential election last month. which slowing come into president who cannot win a second five year time. and for more let's bring in correspondent cast one on one
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who is standing by with the very latest from kenya catherine we are hearing at least five people dead with allegations that kenyan police are responsible for those deaths what more are you hearing. well what we know so far is that a sixth person succumbed to his injuries. just to the few moments back now the death death toll is at six so this is basically the situation the situation it's rather calm right now but with the level of violence we saw today there is a creation that we could see more tension in the country especially as the supreme court prepares to give a ruling on whether you know the election of incumbent president who was legal or not so that's what we're waiting for kenyans and basically on edge but six people dead and opposition supporters say that they they had every right to to
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you know go to the streets and to welcome them to you know welcome home from from the from the trip that he had been given the situation so right now everything is ten and with the opposition isn't there out on the streets we're looking at pictures actually of how about exactly played out what justification is being used there i mean this is a democracy that we're talking about for police to use force against the leader of the opposition. well it's very interesting because the police insist that they didn't use live rounds they say that they were they practiced some sort of restraint compared to other situations but we did see we did see casings of blacks . in the in the area where the protests took place. human rights. human rights activists are obviously up against the police saying that they shouldn't have done that we have had reports where convoy was attacked as well
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which also raises questions because when street windscreen was cracked we don't know whether it was a bullet that was aimed at his car where that was kind of. but a lot of people are saying that the case was very heavy. and it could have been probably less heavy handed and if they were less heavy handed the situation would have said to that particular level. so this is not the first time the violence has broken out in the country of course we know that given not given also your knowledge of history there what do you expect to unfold over the coming days. well what we expect to see on monday is the supreme court ruling so that's going to be very interesting we're going to see how opposition supporters respond to whatever the supreme court says on monday there are allegations that the supreme court could uphold incumbent president. presidency but we're not sure yet it's more of a wait and see. but then again you have
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a president who will be sworn in because after the ruling he could be sworn in and then he will have to lead a country that is clearly divided in a country that is clearly crying out for some sort of justice among a section of its people so it's it's really hard to explain what would happen because it's quite characteristic we have it in. it's uncharacteristic in the sense that it's we didn't see it and don't know what's going to happen in this particular situation no easy solutions with tensions and violence on the rise there in kenya catherine on one throw your expert our expert on the ground thank you so much for telling us a little bit more. germany search for a new government has gone into extra time chancellor angela merkel originally said that she wanted an agreement by yesterday but marathon overnight talks failed to produce a breakthrough her conservative bloc is seeking
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a coalition deal with the pro-business free democrats and the greens now they are back at the negotiating table hoping to avoid a fresh election. another round of difficult talks of the c.d.u. party headquarters the negotiators are coming off a long night with no concrete results much is at stake failure to reach an agreement could mean new elections but chancellor merkel says she's determined not to let that happen villain despite all the difficulties in these negotiations i am determined to form a government as mandated by germany's vote as they definitely won't be easy it will definitely be hard but it's worth going into a second round of talks on the buy in of my so that is this is on solid ground that we all realize we have to make compromises everyone. so far that hasn't happened enough. this is especially applies to those who declare to the outside world that they're making all sorts of concessions but from what i see room we sit down
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together and not get some of his remarks clearly aimed at germany's green party z. hoffa c.s.u. in the greens are at loggerheads on many key issues including migration and energy policy. but what we can't allow is that someone says i want discussed that you know everyone has to negotiate otherwise the talks don't make any sense. the fourth player in the negotiations germany's liberal f.d.p. are also sit on a positive outcome. a new coalition at a federal level in germany could mean a new beginning in terms of policy. and we hope very much as free democrats that the other parties are bold enough to try it and. the four parties had hoped to have already finished with negotiations but with one self-imposed deadline now missed many expect there to be moved long nights ahead. let's get
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a quick check now some other stories that have been making news around the world u.s. backed forces in iraq say that they have retaken the last town in the country held by islamic state militants iraqi troops forced i asked from russia after five hours of fighting leaving the jihadists in control of little more than patches or iraq's western desert along the border with syria. nato has apologized to president russian type air to one of turkey over military exercises in which he was depicted as the enemy of the alliance tally aided by withdrawing forty soldiers from the exercise in norway turkey has been a member of nato for sixty five years. u.n. sponsored talks on climate change are drawing to a close in the german city of boston delegates from nearly two hundred countries have spent the last two weeks working on an action plan to cut c o two emissions in line with the paris accord which aims to limit global warming to below two degrees celsius by the end of the century activists say that progress is desperately needed
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. water edwin has witnessed the effects of climate change himself the beekeeper from st lucie has come to the climate talks in poland to tell his story three years ago the hurricane destroyed the flowers that his piece depended on insurance payouts help him recover and now he's a climate activist. by far than that it's a wonderful family because as we see claim it chindia is that we need something for the future so we have to work on it from now on that are what children would be better off. it's because of people like edwin from areas vulnerable to extreme weather but the climate conference in bonn is being held it's drawing up the rules to enable the landmark paris accord of twenty fifteen to work the mood is optimistic and climate campaigners are sounding a positive note. i think we have seen here that the paris spirit is still alive and
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work really hard to make progress on the so-called group work so how the paris agreement will actually be implemented. coal has dominated the talks twenty three countries have pledged to phase out the fossil fuel but germany isn't one of them with coalition talks still going on the current german government wasn't prepared to make such a big decision. and that's hard because throughout the front door now for a lot of years knowing there are a lot of other countries going ahead and not germany. poorer nations called on rich nations to contribute one hundred billion dollars about twenty twenty. change but so far the rich nations have provided only to promise developing countries are disappointed. it's a slow and painstaking process delegates hope the promises of the paris agreement are becoming reality. in other news new york's legendary jewelry
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store tiffany and co is making hollywood dreams come true in a move to attract millennial as the flagship store on fifth avenue now has a blue box cafe where customers can enjoy themselves during their shopping spree and yes you can in fact order breakfast at tiffany's which tiffany's orders to make the one nine hundred sixty one film title a reality of course it is not cheap breakfast cost twenty nine dollars plus taxes but hey at least you get to say you're having breakfast at tiffany's. you're up to date on. thanks for watching. the whole d w one. for the.

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